Miramar Ship Index is an index to ships and their histories, covering iron and steel sailing ships, powered merchant ships, and warships, since the early 19th century. For more information see their website.

There are up to 30 one-year accounts available to Wikipedians through this partnership.

Requirements

You have an account that is a minimum of 6 months old

You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia

You do not already have access to this resource through another library or institution

You have made at least 10 edits to Wikimedia projects in the last month

You are not currently blocked from editing Wikipedia

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations

Approved editors may

Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content;

Electronically save portions of restricted content;

Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;

Approved editors will not

Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties

Mass scrape or mass download Miramar content

Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.

Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.

Violate any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the Miramar website they are accessing.

Private and confidential information

By applying to the Program, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and Miramar. Wikipedia Library organizers contracted under the Wikimedia Foundation will abide by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and associated confidentiality agreements. Volunteer representatives of the Wikipedia Library are neither employees nor contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation (or Miramar), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation

Editors should always provide original citation information in addition to linking to Miramar resources, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.

Editors should not provide bare links to restricted Miramar pages

Note (subscription required) in the citation, where appropriate

Respect the copyright of Miramar, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use

Cite resources in line with the citation examples provided below or with the examples provided by Miramar

Note that citation styles vary by article; editors can use the style most appropriate to the articles they are working with so long as the citations are complete.